Pelargonium. | GERANIACES. Of 
1. P. australe, Jacq. Hclog. t. 100.—A decumbent or erect 
simple or branched more or less hairy herb 6-18in. high; root- 
stock stout. Leaves on slender petioles 2-6 in. long; blade 1—2 in. 
diam., ovate-cordate or orbicular-cordate, obscurely 3-—6-lobed ; 
lobes finely crenate-serrate, obtuse; stipules broad. Peduncles 
longer than the leaves; umbels 10-12-flowered. Flowers small, 
1tin, diam., pink. Sepals ovate, acute, hairy; spur usually very 
short. Petals from + to 4.as long again as the sepals, spathulate, 
notched. Fertile stamens 5, the remainder reduced to membranous 
scale-like staminodia. Carpels very hairy, their beaks long, lined 
on the inner face with long soft white hairs.—Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 
998; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 82. P. australe var. clandestinum, Hook. 
f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 37. P. clandestinum, L’ Herit ex D.C. Prodr. i. 
160; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 595; Raoul, Choiw, 47; Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i. 41. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLANDS, STEWART IsLAND, CHATHAM ISLANDS: 
Abundant throughout, ascending to 2000 ft. Kopata. November—February. 
Also found in Australia and Tasmania, and in Tristan d’Acunha, and 
probably identical with the South African P. grossularioides, Ait. 
3. OXALIS, Linn. 
Herbs, stemless or caulescent. Leaves all radical or alternate, 
compound, usually 3-foliolate, stipulate or exstipulate. Flowers 
regular, on axillary 1- or more- flowered peduncles. Sepals 5, 
imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, contorted. Dise without glands. 
Stamens 10, free or connate at the base, all anther-bearing. Ovary 
5-lobed, 5-celled; styles 5, distinct; ovules 1 or more in each cell. 
Capsule loculicidally dehiscing, the valves persistent on the axis. 
Seeds with an outer fleshy coat which bursts elastically; testa 
erustaceous ; albumen fleshy. 
A large genus of over 200 species, chiefly found in South America and South 
Africa, with a few widely dispersed in most parts of the world. 
Stem elongated. Peduncles axillary, 1-6-flowered. Flowers 
yellow ok a 0 Se aK a1) dl. ONcorniewlata. 
Stem short or wanting. Peduncles radical, 1-flowered. 
Flowers white Ls on bu vt .. 2. O. magellanica. 
1. O. corniculata, Linn. Sp. Plant. 435.—A prostrate, decum- 
bent or ascending, glabrous or pubescent, much-branched perennial 
2-12 in. long; stems often matted. Leaves alternate, on long or 
short petioles, 3-foliolate; leaflets broadly obcordate, very variable 
in size, 4-lin. long, glaucous beneath. Stipules minute, adnate 
to the petiole or wanting. Peduncles axillary, 1-6-flowered, about 
as long as the petioles. Flowers yellow, variable in size. Sepals 
acute or obtuse. Petals obcordate, notched. Capsule oblong or 
linear, subeylindric ; seeds few or many in each cell.—Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i. 42; Handb. N.Z. Fil. 38; Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 301; 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 83. 
